Assalam o Alaikum. Shab-e-Juma Mubarak. Mubarak because Juma is a blessed day. Friday was the first day and shall be the last day of the earth. In between, it shall be a blessed day every week. One way to make the best of this day is to connect with amazing Al Kahf. Let’s quickly go through next story of Al Kahf covered in Ayah 27-49. The story of the two men and the garden demonstrates how the actions of believers lead to heavenly bliss, while the actions of those who are disbelieving and ungrateful to Allah only lead to disappointment and failure.
Here we are introduced to two people. One of them is a believer who is grateful for whatever Allah has given him, while the other has been given abundant wealth but developed arrogance and a sense of entitlement over those people lacking such wealth. He confused wealth in this life for the favours promised to us by Allah in the Hereafter. Hence, Allah taught the ungrateful man a lesson on humility by destroying his wealth with a simple change of the weather, while the grateful believer sought the favour of Allah through humility and gratitude.
All of this points to the fact that Allah has reserved true success and blessings for those who submit to Him and serve Him. In contrast, those who ignore the authority of Allah over them will be deluded by the traps of this world and become obsessed with them. However, they will discover that such pleasures will only last a short while after which they will be taken away from them and replaced with torment in the Hereafter.
And strike for them the parable of two men. We gave to one of them two gardens of grapevines (18:32).
May Allah swt make us grateful for what we’ve got and protect us false sense of entitlement. Ameen
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